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Section Three: Risk Assessment <br /> <br />Buildings in Eugene Fire & EMS Fire Protection Area <br /> <br />For the purpose of this report, data was gathered from the Lane County Regional Land <br />Information Database, which is maintained by Lane Council of Governments (LCOG). The Fire <br />Department Inspection database provided additional data. These databases track land use or <br />inspection category and not buildings per se. Therefore, the following figures represent the <br />department's best calculation of the number of buildings protected. <br /> <br /> Table 3.2 Buildings by Occupancy Type <br /> <br /> Buildings by Occupancy Type Risk Area "A" Risk Area "B" <br /> Single-Family Residential 41,209 1,514 <br /> Duplex Residential 2,770 9 <br /> Multi-Family Residential 2,683 2 <br /> Group Residential 184 1 <br /> Hotels/motels (incl. residential) 158 0 <br /> Places of Assembly 342 8 <br /> Offices & Services 2,363 10 <br /> Educational Facilities 278 0 <br /> Manufacturing 408 1 <br /> Retail & Wholesale 1,293 12 <br /> Hazardous 349 0 <br /> Health Care Facilities 56 1 <br /> Storage Facilities 477 0 <br /> Totals 52,484 1,558 <br /> <br />It should be noted that the figures shown above for residential occupancies represent a best <br />estimate for actual buildings and do not indicate the number of individual dwelling units <br />contained therein. Querying the available database for separate mailing addresses to individual <br />units resulted in the following figures for number of dwelling units: <br />Table 3.3 Dwelling Units in Fire Risk Areas <br /> <br /> Dwelling Units Only <br /> Risk Area "A" 68,520 <br /> Risk Area "B" 1,537 <br /> Total Dwelling Units 70,057 <br /> <br />High-rise structures pose a unique set of challenges in performing firefighting operations. The <br />associated life risk and high density of occupants, the challenge of marshaling personnel and <br />equipment aloft, and the development of support systems needed to sustain a high-rise operation, <br />cause high-rise fires to be managed differently from other firefighting operations. <br /> <br /> 21 <br /> <br /> <br />